Digital Archive for Auto Industry Planned

The University of Michigan-Dearborn has gotten a $220,00 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a Web site and online archive that studies the impact of the auto industry (and the auto itself) on American culture.

The Web site will feature an archive devoted to auto industry engineers and designers. It'll also use a collection of about 300 interviews from the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village. These interviews are from the 1950's and were conducted with people associated with Henry Ford. In addition, the archive will also use 100 interviews conducted in the 80's with automotive designers, papers of American automotive designers and records of the Ford Motor Company. You can get more information about the archive from the UM-D press release at http://www.umd.umich.edu/univ/ur/press_releases/may02/stsnehgrant_pr.html .

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